Mother, Should I Trust The Census Bureau?
Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to count every single person living in the country. It's a complex undertaking with enormous stakes. But some people are very afraid of how that information...
1 Apr 202037min
Code Switch: Race. In Your Face.
Code Switch is a weekly podcast that explores how race intersects with every aspect of our lives. Hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby bring honesty, empathy and nuance to challenging conversat...
25 Mar 202051s
Sex, Friendship And Aging: 'It's Not All Downhill From Here'
This week, senior correspondent Karen Grigsby Bates talks with the best-selling author Terry McMillan, famous for her novels Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. The two longtime frie...
25 Mar 202022min
The All-Women Mariachi Group That's Lifting Our Spirits
With all this pandemic anxiety swirling, we thought you might need some music to take your mind off things. So this week, we've got an episode from our friends over at Latino USA. It's about Flor de T...
18 Mar 202016min
The Limits Of Empathy
In matters of race and justice, empathy is often held up as a goal unto itself. But what comes after understanding? In this episode, we're teaming up with Radio Diaries to look at the career of a whit...
11 Mar 202035min
When Fear Of The Coronavirus Turns Into Racism And Xenophobia
As international health agencies warn that COVID-19 could become a pandemic, fears over the new coronavirus' spread have activated old, racist suspicions toward Asians and Asian Americans. It's part o...
4 Mar 202024min
Claude Neal: A Strange And Bitter Crop
Eighty-five years ago, a crowd of several thousand white people gathered in Jackson County, Florida, to participate in the lynching of a man named Claude Neal. The poet L. Lamar Wilson grew up there, ...
26 Feb 202025min
Blexodus: The Black Exodus From The GOP
How did the party of the Ku Klux Klan became the party of choice for black voters? And how did the party of Abraham Lincoln become 90 percent white? It's a messy story, exemplified by the doomed frien...
19 Feb 202031min
